Carson Daly Has Back Surgery To Help Remedy Decades-Long Pain

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Carson Daly has found relief to his decades-long back pain after undergoing a new, minimally invasive procedure. Daly spoke about the FDA-approved procedure, called Intracept, while on the “Today” show Thursday.

The procedure, which Daly underwent earlier this week, targets the basivertebral nerve and will “essentially cut off the phone call that your back makes to your brain every time you move and you go ‘ouch.’ It’s just not going get that signal,” Daly explained.

The surgery took less than an hour and didn’t involve too much downtime either, with the 48-year-old TV personality returning to the show Thursday to share an update with his “Today” co-hosts. “I feel actually better, and I’m glad that I did it,” he said. “It’s not a cure-all, but it was a step in my journey that I think is going to help.” “Hopefully, it’ll help some people because there’s some new technology out there that’s definitely helped relieve me of some sharp pains,” the former MTV VJ added.

While he will be sharing more about the procedure on the “Today” show next week — including some clips of him going under the knife, Daly has been open about his struggle with back pain, which, according to “Today”, stemmed from a snowmobiling accident he suffered while working for MTV in the ’90s. “At the end of one of the days of shooting, I was on a snowmobile being shuttled down by ski patrol, and we got into, like, an accident,” he recalled. “I was knocked unconscious, and I kinda came to in the snow in a toboggan, really couldn’t feel anything below my legs, one of those really scary moments.” Daly ultimately suffered a T12 compression fracture, which he said: “in the world of back injuries is actually not that bad.” Doctors told him early on that nothing